Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe